Category: System Administration
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Slacking over the Holidays
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So December was an interesting month for me, with a few changes in my personal career and the holidays. I take a week off. Which of course lead me spending…
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Connecting PHP to An Oracle Instance on RedHat or CentOS 5
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Here lately it seems that everyone wants to connect to Oracle, but I have to admit this was the first time someone asked me to get PHP to talk to…
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Quick Start To Using MongoDB with Python on Linux
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With it’s rapid growth in popularity MongoDB is quickly becoming one of the top NoSQL Databases out there and with Python being one of the top ten programming languages according…
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Connecting Python to Oracle.
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In the current world of heterogeneous networks it seems that you need to be able to connect to ever type of database system out there. In a recent project, I…
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Slacking off
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Well I haven’t really wrote anything in the last couple of months even though, I have had plenty to write about. I went to OSCON 2010 in July and had…
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Building Thrift on RedHat/CentOS 5.x
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What’s Thrift you ask? Well to quote their website. Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build…
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Finding the HBA WWN on RHEL 5.x
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Nice and easy one line command. shell> cat /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/device/fc*/port_name
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So many to choose from.
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For the last month or so. There has been a debate amongst, my peers and I, on which is the better file system on Linux and how to benchmark and…
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Reinstalling the Boot Loader on RHEL
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In many cases, the GRUB boot loader can mistakenly be deleted, corrupted, or replaced by other operating systems. The following steps detail the process on how GRUB is reinstalled on…
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Cloud computing
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Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Cloud computing can be confused with: grid…